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It's finals week: Do you know what your teen is taking to study so hard?
By the end of high school, 12% of teens say they have taken a stimulant medication for reasons other than to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But parents, including many of those whose kids are taking ADHD drugs in a bid to boost...
Tags: Children's Health, Drugs and Medicines, Behavioral Conditions, Adderall (drug), Drug Use
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder linked to adult obesity
Having childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could lead to a life of obesity, even if ADHD symptoms disappear in adulthood, a new study shows. The study, which followed up on 207 middle-class men who had been diagnosed with ADHD as...
Tags: Weight, Behavioral Conditions, Social Sciences, Obesity, Body Mass Index
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mental Illness, Behavioral Conditions, Environmental Pollution, Culture
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Texas pitcher gives teammate urine for drug test; test still fails
This story would be funny if it weren't so sad. Texas Longhorns pitcher Corey Knebel was suspended from the team on Friday because he substituted his urine sample for a teammate's to prevent the teammate from failing a drug test. Problem: Knebel's urine...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, TBS (tv network), Adderall (drug), Social Sciences, Texas Longhorns
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Addressing girls' health needs at juvenile detention centers
Latrice lifts the sleeve of her gray sweatshirt to reveal small, dark lines — scars from slicing her forearm over and over to drown out pain from years of sexual abuse. She says she was an alcoholic, dropped out of school in the eighth grade and got...
Tags: Marijuana Use, Behavioral Conditions, Juvenile Delinquency, Recreational Substance Use, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Emergency room visits for ADHD medications rise sharply, report says
By Melissa HealyProblems with stimulant medications used to treat symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are sending an increasing number of Americans to emergency departments for treatment, a new government report warns. Between 2005 and 2010,...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Adderall (drug), Social Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Arts and Culture
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Rodent of the Week: Ritalin and Prozac -- a troubling combo for children?
Four in 10 kids who get a diagnosis of either depression or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) end up getting both diagnoses sometime in their young lives. That means a lot will spend some part of their adolescence taking two psychiatric...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Behavioral Conditions, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Substance Abuse
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This is your mind on meditation: less wandering, more doing
The brains of experienced meditators appear to be fitter, more disciplined and more "on task" than do the brains of those trying out meditation for the first time. And the differences between the two groups are evident not only during meditation, when...Tags: Apple iPhone, Yale University, Behavioral Conditions, Science, Medical Research
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ADHD meds OK for kids' hearts, study says
Children taking stimulant medications to quell symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a very low risk of suffering heart attack, stroke or sudden, unexplained death, and the probability that they will suffer such a crisis ...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Behavioral Conditions, High Blood Pressure, Physical Conditions
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Album review: N.E.R.D.'s 'Nothing'
Pop & HissWhether or not youâre a fan of the genre-juggling merits of N.E.R.D., itâs impossible to deny the group's influence on the Knux, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi and dozens of others. During an era when rap reveled in steroids and squat-addled...... -
Over 100 major leaguers approved for ADD drugs
The Fabulous ForumFor the fourth consecutive season, more than 100 major league players were cleared to take drugs for attention deficit disorder under baseball's drug policy. The significant use of ADD drugs, perceived as a way to skirt baseball's amphetamine ban,... -
It's back: The food coloring/hyperactivity debate and the red bug
Opinion L.A.Back in the 1970s, when Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was called (lower-cased) hyperactivity, worried parents attended many a meeting touting the Feingold Diet, which called for easing symptoms by having children eat foods without artificial...
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